I saw a couple of posters comment negatively on
Transhumanism and frankly, I had no idea what
transhumanism was… so I did some research…
I was surprised at the negative comments because we
are already in the begining of the transhumanism era…
we use technology to improve our lives… for example,
I wear a hearing aid in my left ear…and as I am deaf in
right ear, my audologist would like me to get a cochlear inplant…
I just don’t have the 20,000 dollars for one… a hearing aid or
a cochlear inplant is just a small scale computer which can
download information onto a computer… we use techology
all the time to improve our lives physically, pacemakers,
heart stents are also some physical means to improve our lives…
now the more important question is, does technology
improve our lives morally or emotionally or intelligently?
Not so far because of the fact is, technology must
be “programmed” as it were, so it requires us to provide
the “programming”, or said another way, garbage in, garbage out…
the programming requires us to be intelligent in the first place to
be able to use technology as a means to improve our lives morally,
emotionally, intellectually…
the wise use of technology requires wisdom to begin with…
but as far as transhumanism being “good” or “evil”, it isn’t either, yet,
because the use of technology, which btw, ought to be a school course
every human being should take, “technology and its uses morally”
technology is good or evil based on its use, how people use technology
decides if it is “good” or “evil”… technology per se isn’t “good” or “evil”,
it is how it is used… like everything else… it is morally neutral, its
use decides it moral value…
so I see no objections per se about the technology and its uses,
including to using technology as we use it today, to augment and
aid people in being able to see, hear, walk, talk, taste and touch…
and I foresee technology in the future to be even better at its uses
in allowing people to be fully functional…
Kropotkin